Trasparancy using image matte on 4 layers

bluelife2128 · Post by **bluelife2128** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:14 am

Ehehe... ummm...
Well... I guess I got back to ya all sooner than anticipated.
OK... I downloaded PICVideo from furrycurry' link. and then installed.
But it's not showing up in any of the codecs list (I.E. FlaskMpeg, Adobe premiere Export settings... and so on)

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:42 am

bluelife2128 wrote:Ehehe... ummm...
Well... I guess I got back to ya all sooner than anticipated.
OK... I downloaded PICVideo from furrycurry' link. and then installed.
But it's not showing up in any of the codecs list (I.E. FlaskMpeg, Adobe premiere Export settings... and so on)

What Windows OS are you using? Did you get any weird errors during install?

If it's a recent Windows:

NT, 2K, and XP won't let you modify system files as a normal user. Try installing the codec as the system administrator -- either login as admin or right-click, select "Run as...", and select the administrator account.

If not -- well, I'm not quite sure what could be going on. The best advice I can give right now is "reinstall", which is hardly good advice at all. Damn, I be rappin' this mothaf*ka thru da hall, gotta go make da call. That's right, y'all. Peace.

What exactly did you do to install it?

and about always -- Um...wow, but it's already over two months old

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:56 am

Actually, I'm pretty certain that when I installed the PICVideo codec in W2K I was just running in my normal-user login and not Admin, so that shouldn't be the problem. I'd assume you've rebooted (sometimes necessary to get everything to recognize the newly installed codecs), since Windows usually forces you to at the drop of a hat. I don't know about Flask, but Premiere should have no problems with it. Did you perchance have another MJPEG codec installed before and not know about it that could be overriding it?

bluelife2128 · Post by **bluelife2128** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:03 pm

I'm running winxp
I'm the only user, it already on administrator.
an ya... I did restart. I remembered that I had to restart for divX

Hehe... nice rap trythil... the ill.

All I want is for those lines to go away... CURS-ED LINES. lol

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:17 pm

Post some screenshots of the problem, and we might be able to create a clearer solution.

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:20 pm

It would help sooooo much if you could take a screenshot of these lines that are vexing you and post in in this thread. It might not have anything to do with your transparency settings at all.

are you using interlaced footage?

are any of the clips slowed down below 100% speed? Premiere automatically tries to deinterlace clips if you set the speed below 100%, and that can screw up progressive footage pretty good.

bluelife2128 · Post by **bluelife2128** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:19 pm

I thought about the slow mo thing... but it's all at 100% and anyways... I know about the feild options thing. So that ain't it....
But I friggin love that screenshot idea....
ummm...
How do I post a pic?
I'm gonna reconnect with my other pc (the one my footage is on) and try posting one... let's see if I can't figure it out on my own...lol
brb

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:17 pm

You're sure under Keyframe & Rendering for your project settings you have Fields set to "No Fields". Check the Project menu then click on Settings viewer. Down at the bottom it should say "No Fields" on each entry.

Squall08 · Post by **Squall08** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 2:22 am

i was tryin to do the same thing you were doing a few months ago. i kept getting these weird lines in my video.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~azponders/video.jpg

thats a pic of what the lines looked like.

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 12:07 pm

Squall08 wrote:i was tryin to do the same thing you were doing a few months ago. i kept getting these weird lines in my video.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~azponders/video.jpg

thats a pic of what the lines looked like.

That's almost certainly interlacing. Resizing the pic makes it a little harder to tell, but I'm pretty sure.

PS: it's a better idea to convert your mp3 audio to WAV for use in Premiere.